Green and blue areas as predictors of overweight and obesity in an 8-year follow-up study

Obesity

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1910-1917

  Halonen, Jaana I ^a,b   Kivimäki, Mika ^a,c   Pentti, Jaana ^a   Stenholm, Sari ^d,e   Kawachi, Ichiro ^f   Subramanian, S V ^f   Vahtera, Jussi ^a,e,g  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

blue area; body mass index; green area; longitudinal; neighborhood disadvantage; obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUE AREA; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FINNISH; FOLLOW UP; GREEN AREA; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBESITY; PARAMETERS; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBAN AREA; WEIGHT GAIN; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FINLAND; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84904988207     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20772     Document Type: Article

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